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So far I'd say it's mid 3 to 4. YMMV depending on what you like; plot is mixed between (melo) dramatic introspection, character interactions and some action. In that order.Premise is, MC is a happy ending enthusiast reborn into a world of a manga that is basically a bastard child of Berserk & Goblin Slayer. The OG protagonist was a one-man show while side and tertiary characters dropped like hotcakes as horrible things happened to them. It had good enough artwork that he could ignore the author's tragedy fetish, apparently.Story opens up as MC realizes that he and his party are royally screwed, they're now in their death scene according to that OG plotline -- someone in the guild had been lazy on a survey and the 'safe' dungeon they were supposed to be training in actually had a teleport trap to a hidden boss room. As the party despairs a badly-injured MC makes his last stand and actually pulls off a victory, but at the cost of a leg and an eye, crippling his ability to use his swordsmanship. Each member of his party feels deeply responsible for the events in their own way, becoming more & more obsessed (and overprotective) about making sure he's taken care of and not letting anything happen to him again.It's a bit funny how everybody assumes MC has this dark and brooding past that prompted his obsessive training, but Spoiler
he just reaaallly wanted to be able to do a super awesome magical Iai slash (that sword-draw attack) like in anime. And he not only succeeded, but was able to pull it off like a F/SN character!
The lack of a leg is keeping him from doing much anymore, though, prosthetics available to him can't handle the flow of magic.
[collapse]-----------------------------If there's a weakness I could point at it's that the perspective-switch monologues are getting a bit repetitive, it's used a lot but cycles around the same angsty things. As the characters progress from that initial trauma it will probably start to change the pattern up.Translation quality seems good so far. Server stopped dropping but it likes to have cloudflare re-validate me every few pages.